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Re: So what?!?! said by Time4aNAP:The market is satellite radio. The market is competition for terrestrial broadcasters, but terrestrial broadcasters are not competition for satellite radio. Might want to let Clear Channel know about that. They consider satellite radio a very big and real threat. They have been fighting against it for years because it cuts into their advertising profits.
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Des Plaines, IL | said by moonpuppy:Might want to let Clear Channel know about that. They consider satellite radio a very big and real threat. They have been fighting against it for years because it cuts into their advertising profits. I'm not going to take it as a given that satellite, or anything else for that matter "cuts into" Clear Channel's advertising profits. And so what if it does?
Television, newspapers, magazines, billboards...all kinds of things are used to advertise products. Clear Channel is no more entitled to that ad revenue than they are to satellite radio ad revenue. If their rate cards are looking bad, they might want to entertain the idea that boring people to death with formulaic programming and tons of commercials might possibly have something to do with it.
The fact remains that satellite radio is a separate market from terrestrial broadcasting.
So what's next? Is someone going to cite all of the walkie-talkies in the world as "proof" that a one-company marketplace isn't a monopoly? Seriously folks, playing with semantics can be entertaining if you're clever, but this isn't. | |
| said by Time4aNAP:I'm not going to take it as a given that satellite, or anything else for that matter "cuts into" Clear Channel's advertising profits. And so what if it does? Clear Channel has made it VERY clear they consider satellite radio a big threat to terrestrial radio. They did everything in their power to stop it in the beginning and keep trying to stop it from making them turn off their repeaters to making RIAA member companies charge more per song.
said by Time4aNAP:Television, newspapers, magazines, billboards...all kinds of things are used to advertise products. Clear Channel is no more entitled to that ad revenue than they are to satellite radio ad revenue. If their rate cards are looking bad, they might want to entertain the idea that boring people to death with formulaic programming and tons of commercials might possibly have something to do with it. Why change your business model if it is easier to cry foul? See cable companies and telco companies.
said by Time4aNAP:The fact remains that satellite radio is a separate market from terrestrial broadcasting. To you and me maybe but not to the terrestrial broadcasters. The Jack-FM concept was one way to combat this but they are still playing a lot of commercials to pay for the airtime and people are noticing. Look how CBS radio sued Howard Stern when he went to Sirius trying to stop their cash cow from leaving.
said by Time4aNAP:So what's next? Is someone going to cite all of the walkie-talkies in the world as "proof" that a one-company marketplace isn't a monopoly? Seriously folks, playing with semantics can be entertaining if you're clever, but this isn't. Motorola is not the ONLY walkie-talkie maker out there. While they are a market leader, I have seen GE, Icom, Kenwood and various others out in the market.
If you are talking about the Nextel service, Verizon tried it but couldn't get it to work right so that's why they put it on the back back burner. | |
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